Fast Fords at Dragway 42 Event

[Royce]

Ahhh  the dreaded Facebook. I HATE going on there.. 

[thatdarncat]

[cjshaker]

MrT put up a large picture of the flyer in the original post. Many thanks for that! And so did Kevin..lol Thanks, Kevin.

[cjshaker]

I didn't see any policy about racers staying at the track in their rigs; is that allowed? The track website covers camping for spectators on "special events", but no mention about racers staying the night.

[MrT427]

Doug, Yes racers can stay in their rigs at no charge. Spectators pay $50.00 per site plus weekend pass.
P.S. I will have Flyers at the Spring Columbus Swap and Beaver Springs for those who would like some.

[BattlestarGalactic]

DW42 never had issues with racers staying on the ground for the most part.

Though, like that diesel drags event I went to in Nov, they mandated like $100 to camp!!  Yowza.  Now, I think that was the group running the weekend event, NOT DW42 itself.

[MrT427]

Join our Public Facebook Group Page:
Fast Fords at Dragway 42

Hotels for this event:
Several hotels are available in Ashland, Ohio at exit 186 off I-71 (SR 250).
We have a block of rooms at:
Holiday Inn Express  $109.00 + tax
1392 Enterprise Pkwy
Ashland, Ohio 44805
(419) 281-2900
On-line booking code DWB

Hampton Inn   $149.00 = tax
2055 East Main St.
Ashland, Ohio 44805
(419) 903-0900

[MrT427]

A couple UPDATES:
Performance Automatic will have it's trailer at the event with C-4/C-6 experts available for trans repair and rebuild for all racers.
Confirmed from Bob "Flash" Martin that attending our event will be the National Y-Block Club. This will be their 25th Annual Y-Block Nationals and Shootout. This is COOL...!!!
Our event is the weekend before the NHRA National event at Summit Motorsports Park. Dragway 42 is 45 minutes from Summit Motorsports Park. We are inviting several Stock, Super Stock and Cobra Jet class racers to race and "test" at our event. More to come.

[MrT427]

Due to Covid-19..The team has decided to cancel this event for 2020. This decision was not easy but out of respect for our racers and families, our sponsors and the spectators we felt this was the right decision. We have re-scheduled this event for the same weekend in June next year.

Thanks to all for your support and hope to see you in 2021.

[TomP]

How far is that from Long Island let me see.

I just checked the map, four inches! It's eight inches from here.

Too bad this virus deal has killed what was going to be a great event.

[cjshaker]

That stinks. The rescheduled Reunion is already out for me, due to Drag Week starting on the same weekend, and I was really looking forward to this event. Of all the public events, I would think a drag strip would be easiest to "social distance" from other people. But I understand the desire not to put people at risk, especially since most all of us FE people are getting up there in age.

[MrT427]

Doug,

You are spot on.....I talked to several of our FEer'S and even some of the Y Block guy's. Most are from out of Ohio and all are very experienced.....I didn't want to say getting OLD.... All said they were not comfortable traveling and staying in a hotel yet. Can't say I blame them...!! Not to mention the financial hardships on some and even our sponsors.
As one of my wise friends said "I want to race for years to come...not just once more". Made sense to me.....Let's all live to race another day. I just hope by September we can go to the FERR.